They would include Paul Rivoche, Ty Templeton, Dave McKean and Jaime Hernandez. This book also had a few different artists throughout, many of whom would later emerge as important alternative caricaturist. Both were excellent! So Dean was the selling point for me.īecause Mister X was first published between 1983–84 by the Toronto based Vortex Comics, I can see why the character had flown under my radar but Mister X's influence can be seen, and acknowledged, in films like Dark City, Brazil and Tim Burton's Batman.
Previously I had read his Prisoner prestige format books (YES, that Prisoner) for DC and the VERTIGO Terminal City series. but, let's be serious here: it's all about Dean Motter, a well-known album and book cover designer. I might almost answer, that it being so odd were reason enough. That being said some might ask, 'Why I would jump onto an odd looking book like this?' Though I found that claim odd as I had no idea, what-so-ever, who he was until I saw his book on the shelf and decided to read it.
what can one say about this mysterious figure? According to some sources he is THE most recognizable graphic expression in the world.
